Elevation of Decatur, Alabama, United States of America

Decatur, Alabama, United States of America is 179 m (587 ft) above sea level.

Decatur's height from sea level is 179 metres, or 587 feet. GeoNames reads 175 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 171 m.

Ground within 5 km

167 m – 191 m

Mean 175 m across the 9.3 km square centred on the town, 24 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

5th of 10

among the towns of Alabama, and 432nd of 1,000 in United States of America.

Nearest town

Madison

23.9 km to the NE, at 212 m, 33 m higher.

Cross-section through Decatur

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 26.2 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Decatur; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 228 m at 13 km west to 172 m at 13 km east.

North to south: from 201 m at 13 km north to 193 m at 13 km south.

Shaded relief of the 55 km around Decatur, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid — Relief, 55 km across, north up; the ring marks the town.

Shading is a north-west light over the grid's own slopes. Colour follows elevation: sea level and below, 0–200 m, 500 m, 1,000 m, 2,000 m, 3,500 m, 5,000 m and above.

Towns near Decatur

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Madison	23.9 km	NE	212 m (696 ft)	+33 m
Huntsville	38.9 km	E	191 m (627 ft)	+12 m

Peaks and passes near Decatur

Cedar Mountain, peak at 270 m (886 ft), 24.6 km to the SE — 91 m above the town.
Burleson Mountain, peak at 269 m (883 ft), 11.5 km to the SE — 90 m above the town.
Jackson Mountain, peak at 257 m (843 ft), 12.6 km to the W — 78 m above the town.

Summit heights from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), within 25 km; only summits higher than the town are listed.

Where Decatur is

Latitude 34.6059253, longitude -86.9833417. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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About this reading

The elevation is the value of the GMTED2010 terrain grid (USGS/NGA, 30 arc-second cells of about 1 km) at Decatur's recorded coordinates. It is the height of the ground in that cell, not of any building; a town on a slope spans several cells, and the range above says how much that matters here. GeoNames' reading of 175 m comes from a finer 90 m SRTM grid at the point it records for the town, which may sit a few hundred metres from ours; the two agreeing to within a few metres is the usual case on flat ground, and a larger gap means the ground is steep. Wikidata's figure is the one its editors cite for the town, often from a survey marker or the town hall.